Alone in the Dark: Cinephilia and the Heroic Imagination

FORTHCOMING Fall 2023

Alone in the Dark is an experimental memoir – or perhaps, more accurately, an anti-memoir or a memoir of the imagination, some unruly combination of essay, prose poem, and floating reverie that examines the relationship between one’s cultural heritage and one’s aesthetic devotions. It initially appears to be an account of the obsessive moviegoing of[…]

The Way Things Go

FORTHCOMING Summer 2023

The Way Things Go contains a mix of poetry, art writing, and life writing about anticipatory grief, or mourning someone or something before it’s gone. Each successive chapter in the book decreases in length by exactly one sentence (a book-length Oulipian “melting snowball”), from a 71 sentence-long opening chapter, to a 70 sentence-long second chapter,[…]

Closer to Dust

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Published: 08/27/2021

No one thinks straight. At least no one remembers straight. But ten years ago, things were different, weren’t they? Roland Barthes once wrote that color in a photograph is like make-up on a corpse. No one is fooled. In anarchic denial of convenient truths, a young international couple meet and marry on a small Mediterranean[…]